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Kwakerman

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Firstly I realise there is a website feedback forum but didn't think it would get many hits and I just need a quick yes / no to see if I have a Win 10 issue or if LZ has a glitch. Basically if I return to a previously looked at thread I used to go back to the post number where I was last, however for the last couple of weeks when I go back to a post Win10 / MS Edge automatically scrolls to the last entry in the post so I end up having to scroll back up the page to see what I have missed. Similarly if I go to the engines forum it scrolls me straight to the bottom of the page. Can't seem to find any LZ or Edge setting that I have accidently switched. I still have 'Last message' set to 'arrow down' (tried it both ways). Other (non LZ) forums don't seem to do it on Edge and if I switch back to Internet Explorer LZ operates as expected. I suspect it is an Edge issue but just wondering if anyone else is having the same issue (i.e. it is a wider Edge issue) or just my installation playing up? Cheers
 
How does it behave on Internet Explorer instead of Edge?
I believe that IE11 is also packaged with Win 10.
This is using the Win 10 packaged I.E, within Edge you can go to settings and 'Open with Internet Explorer', it then opens in I.E and seems to work fine
 
Doesn't seem to happen to me in Edge. If I click on a page of posts it starts me at the top of the page whether I have looked at it previously or not.
 
Install and use Chrome and/or Firefox and you'll have far fewer issues.
+1, mainly for firefox, as mr g**gle may track the living daylights out of you....

Preferably, run FF under linux - seems to work for me:D
 
Cheers for the replies, guess its an issue with my actual installation if no one else is having the same issue. Was giving Edge the benefit of the doubt but it does have quite a few issues compared to IE. May go back to FF and see how things go.
 
If you aren't going to switch to a Mac, do the next best thing and install Chrome and Firefox, unless forced too, avoid the MS browsers.
 
Agreed, but you can turn off the tracking in G**gle. And don't forget Mr G**gle will still track you on FF if you use his search engine.
Oh yes indeedy - which is why we don't :D

we use DuckDuckgo - daft name, (Ok, very very daft name ), but a decent engine.
 
To reduce the amount of tracking you suffer;
Run Firefox, and set to delete cookies at the end of the session.
Use Duckduckgo or Startpage for searches - both use google, but don't store your info.
Unfortunately the main source of tracking is Windows 10 - and you can only turn off some of it. 7 & 8 can also be infected, but research can reveal how to remove the updates that have installed it.
I am sticking with 7 for now, but experimenting with Linux ready for the future.
 
Linux is the future, everything else will fall by the wayside eventually - we're running Peppermint 6 here, and its fantastic - what are you experimenting with?
Agree 100% which is why I use Linux (currently Ubuntu) on both my PC and laptop. I haven't had W*$%&ows on a PC at home for years. Unfortunately I need to use it for work but if I'm browsing on my company laptop I use Firefox.
 
Linux is the future, everything else will fall by the wayside eventually - we're running Peppermint 6 here, and its fantastic - what are you experimenting with?
Peppermint, like you. Slowly working through everything I want it to do, to see what I can get in Linux versions, and what I have to try in WINE or a VM. I'm often using a laptop without internet, so everything possible needs to run stand alone.
 
Linux is good and free. But can be more hard work sometimes. Depends what you are doing and how patient you are. There are lots of different implementations as well, so can get confusing. Ubuntu is probably not a bad starting point though.

It's very much just like using Windows for the most part. But sometimes getting stuff to work can be trial and error and you can tell it's not as a polished product. It's a little more rough round the edges and you can end up getting yourself in a mess easier. There is also an expectation with most Linux versions that you will be command prompt (terminal) proficient.

I have had Linux at home and at work and would certainly use it again. But I have found bugs and issues each time.

I still have and use Windows machines too, but my main home PC and work computer are Mac's these days. Best of both worlds. All the benefits of a UNIX based OS. But with a more comprehensively finished product. And more off the shelf applications that don't look like they've just been lashed together by a developer with no User Interface design.
 
Linux is good and free. But can be more hard work sometimes. Depends what you are doing and how patient you are. There are lots of different implementations as well, so can get confusing. Ubuntu is probably not a bad starting point though.

It's very much just like using Windows for the most part. But sometimes getting stuff to work can be trial and error and you can tell it's not as a polished product. It's a little more rough round the edges and you can end up getting yourself in a mess easier. There is also an expectation with most Linux versions that you will be command prompt (terminal) proficient.

I have had Linux at home and at work and would certainly use it again. But I have found bugs and issues each time.

I still have and use Windows machines too, but my main home PC and work computer are Mac's these days. Best of both worlds. All the benefits of a UNIX based OS. But with a more comprehensively finished product. And more off the shelf applications that don't look like they've just been lashed together by a developer with no User Interface design.
Over the years Linux has got better and better to the point it is now a very polished product. It is very different to Windows but then so are Apple products and for that matter Android (which is just a flavour of Linux for phones and tablets)
There is a learning curve as there is for anything new but in many ways it is vastly superior to Windoze

Faster as no need for speed crippling anti virus software
Faster to install - you can have it installed and fully updated in under an hour. Compare that to the many many painful hours it takes to install W7 or W8
So long as your computer is compatible (most are) the drivers install automatically.
Updates take only a few minutes without the multiple reboots.
Software is easy to find and install from the software store, a bit like Android and 98% (ish) of it is free.
There are multiple flavours of it so if you don't like one then try another. There are even different desktop environments from the same supplier, eg Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Ubuntu server, Edubuntu etc.

And as for the command prompt I rarely go anywhere near it nowadays and most people will never need to.
 
Never actually used Linux so I'm tempted to give it a try on one of my old retired laptops to see how it goes.
Definitely worth a go - and i doubt you will go back to windross. Worth doing some basic research about hardware compatibility - mainly peripherals like printers and scanners - HP are natively supported, and most others, like Brother, Canon Epson are Ok, but most lexmark, IIRC, become paperweights (!!).
Some damn good forums out there for Linux - best one I know is for Peppermint, -it is run by one of the development team -

http://linuxforums.org.uk/index.php?action=forum
 
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